There’s a fuss concerning the greeting that Turkish footballer Merih Demiral introduced. However why not about one thing a lot worse: cowardly directors are completely satisfied to spend your tax cash on the far-right Gray Wolves. That writes Zihni Ozdil.
‘Thousands and thousands of guilders in subsidies go to entrance organizations of the acute right-wing Turkish motion Grey Wolves.’ In accordance with the newspaper Constancy in 1997.
‘Is the board ready to cease this subsidy(s) instantly, now that it has develop into clear that these organisations are affiliated with the Gray Wolves and will not be working in an integrating method?’ requested the SP in The Hague in 2003. The reply from the mayor and aldermen:
‘The municipality supplies a subsidy to the Turkish Cultural Basis in The Hague for socio-cultural actions that promote integration into The Hague society (for instance language classes, pc programs, sports activities). The place of an organisation on issues that primarily concern the home affairs of the nation of origin doesn’t, in precept, play a task within the evaluation of a subsidy software.’
Over the previous thirty years, quite a few coverage paperwork have appeared justifying the Dutch authorities’s help for far-right, racist, fascist Turkish nationalists. Even revelations had no impact on this.
In 1997, journalists Stella Braam and the late Mehmet Ülger wrote a ebook concerning the presence of the Gray Wolves within the Netherlands. Their journalistic analysis revealed intimately what number of entrance organisations of the Gray Wolves are energetic within the Netherlands. And the way they obtain help from the Dutch authorities in numerous methods.
Unprecedented indifference
To be on the secure aspect, I want to emphasize that there isn’t any naivety or ignorance at play right here. Because the response of the Hague council to the SP in 2003 makes crystal clear, Dutch directors know very properly that they’re supporting excessive right-wing Turkish (entrance) organizations.
Unprecedented indifference is the driving drive right here. They’re completely completely satisfied to make use of your tax cash to present the Gray Wolves the proverbial weapons to poison generations of Turkish-Dutch youngsters with their ideology of hate. Allow them to drown, they are saying in civil servant jargon.
As a result of Braam and Ülger additionally walked alongside municipalities with their findings. To ask why they continued to subsidize Gray Wolves. In addition they bought the reply, fairly actually: ‘Go away these Turks in their very own tradition.’
Nice and mighty
And make no mistake. The subsidies proceed to today. Take for instance the stunning report from the Doorbraak web site from 2020.
A few of the conclusions:
‘Our analysis exhibits that Gray Wolves organisations within the Netherlands are nonetheless superb at discovering their solution to municipal subsidies and have an ideal command of the institutional language that municipalities are delicate to. Their letters and emails to municipalities are filled with phrases equivalent to “integration”, “participation”, “emancipation”, “dialogue”, “social cohesion” and “mutual understanding”.
‘In doing so, they nonetheless handle to influence many municipalities to submit their requests for subsidies or different types of help, and so they handle to hide their excessive right-wing and ultra-nationalist beliefs properly (…) It’s putting that many municipalities don’t undertake a principled place in the direction of native Turkish Federation Netherlands branches (Gray Wolves).
‘These are authoritarian, anti-democratic and ultra-right organizations. The municipalities additionally lack alertness, even when there are clear indications that these are organizations with a doubtful ideology. For instance, officers from the municipality of Rotterdam noticed a picture of a wolf in a membership room.’
In Germany, issues aren’t a lot better, to say the least. There too, the Gray Wolves got a long time of help, together with by way of umbrella organisations, help from the German authorities.
The tax cash of the German citizen has been a fantastic assist to Turkish fascism. In accordance with the German secret service, the Gray Wolves the most important and strongest far-right group in Germany.
How does that work in these heads?
Nicely, I hear you suppose, why are you writing all this down now, Dr. Özdil?
That, pricey readers, has to do with the European Soccer Championship. After a objective towards Austria, Turkish footballer Merih Demiral gave the Gray Wolf salute. You possibly can name it a type of Turkish equal of the Hitler salute.
The German authorities reacted with shock. Beneath stress, UEFA ordered an investigation. And Demiral has now been suspended for tonight’s match towards the Netherlands.
I will not mince my phrases and truthfully admit that this makes me extremely grumpy. How does that work in these German and Dutch heads? If Demiral provides the Gray Wolf salute within the stadium, he’s punished. But when he provides the Gray Wolf salute on the subsidy counter, he will get loads of free tax cash?
I can now not stand this unbearably empty hypocrisy and faux morality. A lot in order that I now merely stand behind Demiral 100%. So long as Germany and the Netherlands subsidize the Grey Wolves, the nice man has each proper to deliver the Grey Wolf salute in every single place in each international locations.
It’s to his nice credit score that he doesn’t ask for a subsidy for it. In doing so, he exhibits himself to be rather more elegant than all these cowardly directors who knowingly and willingly give away your hard-earned tax cash to excessive right-wing Turkish organizations.
I am even on the verge of virtually giving the Grey Wolf salute myself out of recalcitrance.
Virtually, I do not write that for nothing.
It isn’t that I am a Turkish Nazi.
